Private images, videos leaked? Here’s how to report and take down non-consensual content from the internet

Private images, videos leaked? Here’s how to report and take down non-consensual content from the internet

At the Madras High Court, Justice N Anand Venkatesh listened to a woman advocate’s plea about her private videos being leaked online without her consent. Secretly recorded by a former partner during college, the footage resurfaced years later, and circulated on social media and messaging apps.  “The woman is undergoing great mental agony,” said the […]

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Indian internet cannot be like Chinese internet: MoS Chandrasekhar

Indian internet cannot be like Chinese internet: MoS Chandrasekhar

Minister of State Rajeev Chandrasekhar. File “We have squarely defined three boundary conditions around which we believe everyone should operate on the Indian internet,” Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology said on March 4. Among these conditions was that “the internet should be open; it should certainly not be like […]

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1482 websites were blocked by IT Ministry in 2022, RTI reveals

1482 websites were blocked by IT Ministry in 2022, RTI reveals

A total of 1,482 websites or URLs were blocked by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY) from January to March 2022, revealed an RTI query filed by Software Freedom Legal Central (SFLC.in), a legal policy firm. The blocked sites include all types of URLs such as webpages, websites and pages on social media […]

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